urban slang

Spaffing is the type of vulgarity that you might hear from a teenager who is aiming to shock the grannies. It's not a word I expect to hear from any grown man let alone an MP or the PM.

A distasteful word but Boris can add it to his “whiff- whaff” and “piffle”. I can suggest another unpleasant slang word particularly appropriate for him - “tosser”.

Slang is often vulgar and tasteless. Leading politicians are generally not expected to show those traits.

That's a new one on me. Spiffing, yes, it's a reply I get told by an old man living nearby when I ask how he is

Urban slang or just plain vulgar?

JackyB ?

Sorry, I winced at Doodledog's "in the eye of the beholder". Was it a deliberate choice of words?

Doodledog

Oh, I thought it referred to ejaculation, Callistemon. Just goes to show, then - it’s all in the eye of the beholder (or not, as the case may be)

I shall never enjoy a glass of champagne in quite the same way again!
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It's obviously the new 'buzz'word for politicians 'as used by Boris'. So not only has he set a new record in lying, deception and law breaking he's ruining the English language as well!

Nannan2 It is far more likely that he meant what is described in the dictionary of urban slang as " (typically used of a man) masturbate"

(And now Google, which likes to archive all of our Google searches, will have it recorded that I searched for a respectable definition of the verb "w**k. Never mind, I have contributed to Nannan2's vocabulary)

Crossed posts - but that was many people's first encounter with the word, and it was obvious both what he meant by it and that he used the expression to shock.

So is it like 'p*ss*ng away' money then??

Sorry, crossed posts

Do you remember Boris Johnson getting into hot water by saying spending lots of cash on historic child sexual abuse was money spaffed up the wall?
Don't think it was so long ago. Was it 50 million? It was to do with police cut backs.

Boris Johnson has used the term in the past, referring to a waste of money as "spaffing against a wall" I don't think he was referring to champagne.

That's what I'd been told it meant too, Doodledog. That's why I was a bit when I heard Boris use it.

I would prefer that politicians used correct standard English language, and didn't use slang terms - especially slang I've never heard before.

Oh, I thought it referred to ejaculation, Callistemon. Just goes to show, then - it’s all in the eye of the beholder (or not, as the case may be)

Urban slang does not refer to champagne I'm afraid *callistemon

I think it can be a difficult line to tread. The stereotype of a judge needing to be told what a t-shirt is, or referring to a ‘popular beat combo’ instead of a band is on one side of the line, but (IMO) ‘spiffing’ is too far into the other.

I suppose it’s all relative though.

I looked it up and found this:

To Spaff - An onomatopoeic word describing the act of shaking up a bottle of champagne and shaking it over one's teammates.

A waste of good champagne, it annoys me intensely whenever I see someone doing that.